It is easier to fall in love when you are out of it than to get out of it when you are… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Discretion Copy Share Image
The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Caprice Copy Share Image
We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Friend Copy Share Image
It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Funeral Copy Share Image
A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Advice Copy Share Image
One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bad company Copy Share Image
Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Clever Copy Share Image
There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The health of the soul is as precarious as that of the body; for when we seem secure from passions, we are… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Body Copy Share Image
The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Art Copy Share Image
Truth is the foundation and the reason of the perfection of beauty, for of whatever stature a thing may be, it cannot… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Beautiful Copy Share Image
It may be said that the vices await us in the journey of life like hosts with whom we must successively lodge;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Doubt Copy Share Image
That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Boast Copy Share Image
The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bears Copy Share Image
What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Love Copy Share Image
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Battle Copy Share Image
Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Chance Copy Share Image
Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Death Copy Share Image
The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Delusion Copy Share Image
Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Deceit Copy Share Image
“It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
He merits no thanks who does a kindness for his own ends. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld Gratitude Copy Share Image
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Currency Copy Share Image
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Advice Copy Share Image
